Monday, April 17, 2017

Mercenary by Michelle Horst: Blog Tour + Giveaway + Review

I’ve always been a healer, a saver of lives, until the day my life is taken from me. A drunk driver destroyed my life and got away with a slap on the wrist.

Where children used to be happy to see me, they now run from me. I want him to pay, to suffer just like I’m suffering. I want him dead. I used to be scared of my neighbor. But since the switch in me is flipped and I’ve become this monster, I’m drawn to him like a moth is drawn to a flame. He’ll burn me - just like the flame will turn the moth into nothing but ashes – and I’m okay with that as long as I get my revenge.

MASON

I deal in death. Killer. Assassin. Mercenary. I go by many names.

I miss the smell of baking that used to come from her apartment. I see the hate festering in her eyes, killing the light that shone so bright. It lit the darkness in me.

I used to be a killer until that car hit her. It woke something in me, a need to save her.

How does a wolf save a lamb without the darkness in him devouring the little light that’s left in her?

*** This is an over the top, insta-love, hot as hell HEA with a twist of kinkiness. HEA are always more satisfying when the characters have to fight for it. If you're looking for a jaw-dropping, panty-melting page turner then jump right in. This is a Standalone Novella with NO cheating. ***

This book touched my soul in so many ways. You have a hardened man, out to seek revenge for someone who meant so much to him. Then, you have a saintly woman who seeks out nothing but the best of people. She will literally give you the shirt off of her back; until....the inevitable happens and her life is changed forever.

I am speaking of Mason and Olivia...aka Liv. Mason is a mercenary, looking to live a life of a single man on a mission. Liv is a nurse who wants nothing but to care for people and make the remaining days of little ones on her ward, the best. She is funny and has a heart of gold. Mason is her neighbor whom she wants nothing to do with. She sees him. She sees the look in his eyes and she knows that he is up to no good when he leaves his apartment so late at night. However, I am sure that she would never imagine how sinister his late night outings are. She just knows that she wants nothing to do with him.

Mason watches her from afar. He doesnt know what it is about her that makes him want to watch over her. Mason was there the night of the incident. She was struck by a drunk driver and left for dead. She is permanently scarred. He feels guilty and wants to help her heal. Mason feels that is what he should do. What he didn't expect were the feelings that ensued. Liv is still frightened of him. Can he change her thoughts about him? Will she let him in and allow him to help her get back to the who she was before the accident?